Thralls, pets, and mounts move very clunky, constantly get hung up on the environment. Attack animations often lead to easy cheesing of the AI. Enemies will often just stand there taking ranged hits from afar and then do this auto-disengage, running back to their previous starting location and regenerating. It feels very inorganic and makes the environment feel more like a sloppy computer than a world of danger.
It should be perpetually risky traversing the environment, especially unprepared. I would like to have seen things like traps or unique ways to single pull creatures such as using methods of distraction where if you get into a fight with multiple enemies, it can turn sour quick.
If you climb up the side of something with monsters at your feet, they should stay there and pace. Some might even be scripted to lie down and wait for you - it shouldn’t be a catch-all failsafe. Additionally, your stamina should very slowly deteriorate while you’re hanging on. You’re not going to tell me that any human being can sit there on a barely-jagged cliff face with their fingers holding the small crevices, and that they can just maintain that indefinitely. The greatest climbers in the world even have limits.
I would say take some advice from the AI in The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild. You can note how creatures interact in their movement. Virtually nothing ever gets hung up on the environment, and nothing feels like it’s being “cheesed”. Monsters sometimes get quite creative in how they pursue you, and combat is a lot more fluid and meaningful.
i hope they add some kind of outcombat heal for pets and thralls such bandages that heal 25% maximum health over time or less just for thralls or make healing arrows better again…